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[6 Mar 2010 | No Comment | ]

Product DescriptionSocial phobia is commonly regarded as a kind of disease caused by a deficient inner mechanism, but it may also be considered as a purposeful interpersonal pattern of self-protection from social threats. Though a critical assessment of several theoretical perspectives, this book attempts to clarify social phobia by critically discussing four questions: what is social phobia, what causes it, what is its nature and what kinds of treatments can improve.
Fearing Others: The Nature and Treatment of Social Phobia

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[24 Feb 2010 | No Comment | ]

Product DescriptionHigh Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The emphasis of the treatment of bipolar disorder is on effective management of the long-term course of the illness, which can involve treatment of emergent symptoms. Treatment methods include pharmacological and psychological techniques. Medications called mood stabilizers are used to prevent or mitigate manic or depressive episodes. Mood stabilizing medications with demonstrated efficacy include lithium, and anticonvulsants such as Depakote, carbamazepine, and lamotrigine. The atypical antipsychotics are all FDA approved for acute treatment of mania (quetiapine, olanzapine, risperidone). Generally speaking, mood stabilizing medications are more effective at treating or preventing manic episodes associated with bipolar disorder; however, some medications (i.e. lamotrigine, fluoxetine, quetiapine) have demonstrated efficacy for the treatment of bipolar depression
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[16 Feb 2010 | No Comment | ]

Product Description(Martin Dunitz) Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA. Pocket-sized, practical guide to the pharmacotherapy of bipolar disorder. Intended to reduce the gap between what is learned from controlled studies and what is done in everyday practice. Includes tables, charts, and flow charts. Softcover.
Bipolar Disorder: A Systematic Approach to Treatment – Pocketbook

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Product Description(Martin Dunitz) Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA. Pocket-sized, practical guide to the pharmacotherapy of bipolar disorder. Intended to reduce the gap between what is learned from controlled studies and what is done in everyday practice. Includes tables, charts, and flow charts. Softcover.
Bipolar Disorder: A Systematic Approach to Treatment – Pocketbook

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Product Description(Martin Dunitz) Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA. Pocket-sized, practical guide to the pharmacotherapy of bipolar disorder. Intended to reduce the gap between what is learned from controlled studies and what is done in everyday practice. Includes tables, charts, and flow charts. Softcover.
Bipolar Disorder: A Systematic Approach to Treatment – Pocketbook

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[13 Feb 2010 | No Comment | ]

Product DescriptionThis digital document is a journal article from Clinical Psychology Review, published by Elsevier in . The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Media Library immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.Description: Bipolar depression is poorly understood and researched, yet it is has a huge impact on functioning in bipolar disorder. This review explores the current status of research regarding the phenomenology, natural history, neuropsychology, psychosocial predictors and cognitive style of bipolar depression. The current status of pharmacotherapy and psychological treatment of bipolar depression is also described. In particular, the manner in which cognitive behaviour therapy for bipolar depression has been adapted from CBT for unipolar depression is critically …

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[12 Feb 2010 | One Comment | ]

Overcoming Specific Phobias – Client Manual: A Hierarchy & Exposure-Based Protocol for the Treatment of All Specific Phobias

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[21 Jan 2010 | No Comment | ]

When poverty, natural disasters and conflicts are prevalent, people become more prone to mental problems. In fact, more than 200 million people all over the world suffer from mental disorders today, most of which are suffering from depression.

There are several types of mental disorders. Organic brain disorders are common as they include cardiovascular disorders, drug and alcohol related symptoms as well as Parkinson’s and Alzheimer’s disease which become more common in old age. There are also mood and anxiety disorders which are most common as they refer to depression and panic disorders. Meanwhile, personality disorders are a result of people’s inability to cope with stressful events and patients with such disorders end up behaving in an unusual or strange way …

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[17 Jan 2010 | One Comment | ]

Product DescriptionExtensive diagnostic, treatment, and management information designed especially for physicians. Detailed information on bipolar disorder addresses: Epidemiology and risk factors Assessment strategies Differential diagnosis/comorbidity Neurobiology and neuropsychiatry Treatment strategies Antimanic and antidepressant agents Maintenance treatment options Psychosocial interventions
Bipolar Disorder: Treatment and Management

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[17 Jan 2010 | No Comment | ]

Product Description Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, NY. Practical guide for clinicians, containing clinical material and therapeutic interventions for the treatment of complex and disturbing self-injurious behaviors. Discusses the different categories of self-injury, from major, as in psychosis, and stereotypic, as seen in the disabled. Softcover.
Self-Injurious Behaviors: Assessment and Treatment

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